Give me a little more time to 'work' this before they go giving away the money?

Trump cut off military aid a week before calling the Ukrainian president about Biden: report



Published
11 mins ago on
September 23, 2019
By Bob Brigham



The apparent quid pro quo Trump was offering Ukraine for election interference was flushed out further on Monday evening in a bombshell report by The Washington Post.
“President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials,” the newspaper reported.

“Officials at the Office of Management and Budget relayed Trump’s order to the State Department and the Pentagon during an interagency meeting in mid-July, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. They explained that the president had ‘concerns’ and wanted to analyze whether the money needed to be spent,” The Post reported. “Administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an ‘interagency process’ but to give them no additional information — a pattern that continued for nearly two months, until the White House released the funds on the night of Sept. 11.”

The newspaper noted that Trump’s order is likely to “fuel suspicions on Capitol Hill that Trump sought to leverage congressionally approved aid to damage a political rival.”




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